Li Yan's first words made Dong Min feel a little relieved, but his next words shocked her, because she was not as injured and weak as she seemed.
While talking to Li Yan, she had already secretly used her internal energy to recover her strength. She thought she had done it without leaving any trace.
She didn't completely believe that Li Yan would let them go, so she decided to take her fate into her own hands and kept regulating her breathing in secret.
Dong Min was ready to take action at any time, but Li Yan was so terrifying that he not only saw through his aura, but also guessed what he was thinking.
Just when Dong Min was about to launch a sudden attack, Li Yan's last sentence stopped her attack. He still planned to let her go. It was really strange, but Dong Min didn't know what the other party was really thinking at this time. But since she had a way out, she didn't have time to think about it.
"Thank you very much, Marshal Li!" Dong Min lowered his eyes and said calmly, then slowly stood up.
"You're welcome!" Li Yan looked at Dong Min with a smile. Just now, Dong Min's aura seemed to explode immediately under the stimulation of his words, but it was quickly restrained. Of course, he saw all this and pretended to be ignorant.
But anyone could see from his expression that he saw through everything but refused to say it out loud, which made Dong Min so angry that his teeth were itching. He finally understood that the other party had deliberately breathed heavily and turned back and forth several times, clearly trying to play a trick on him, but what could he do even though he knew it
"Pass the order, let them go, but they can only go west, otherwise they will be killed without mercy!" Li Yan said to the side without turning his head.
Although the surrounding soldiers, including Cui Feng in the distance, felt doubtful and unwilling, they always regarded their marshal as a god, so they never questioned Li Yan's orders. They immediately accepted the order and made way for the other side to go down the mountain on the west side.
Amidst the gazes of the imperial soldiers who seemed to want to eat her alive, Dong Min calmly picked up her spear and walked to her own side. She had killed many imperial soldiers before, so she calmly accepted these gazes that hated her to the core.
Under the excited gaze of the remaining fifty or so people of Meng State, Dong Min returned to the gathering place. They did not know what kind of agreement their general had reached with the other party, but the worst case scenario would not be worse than dying in battle.
After Dong Min whispered a few words to his men, the fifty people had no choice but to follow Dong Min westward without looking back, with unwilling eyes on them. Of course, they also understood that even if they all died here, they would not be able to cross this "Falling Immortal Slope" even a single step.
Dong Min did not tell the whole truth, but just said to retreat for the time being and make a decision later.
"Marshal, are you really going to let him go just like that?" Cui Feng came behind Li Yan and said respectfully. Although he followed the order, he certainly didn't want to let go of the murderer who killed his brother. In his heart, he believed that his marshal must have a backup plan by doing this, because Li Yan never left his enemies alive.
He thought the same as everyone else, except that he thought his marshal had other plans.
Li Yan sighed in his heart. He also wanted to kill the other person. He was obviously not a man who was greedy for beauty. However, every word and every look from the other person made it impossible for him to have any murderous intention. He also knew Cui Feng's intention, but the matter could not be explained clearly. If he did that, he would become a womanizer and a lustful person.
When Li Yan was about to turn around to deal with the enemy coming from the east, the silver-armored woman who was already a hundred feet away in the distance suddenly looked back, her long hair flying, and she smiled a charming smile.
She suddenly took out a huge bow from her waist, and then took out a long arrow with carved feathers from behind with her slender jade fingers. At the same time, she slightly opened her red lips, and with the internal force flowing in, a clear sound came out.
"General, your martial arts are unparalleled, but Dong Lingmin still has a little trick. Please teach me!" As he spoke, the bow in his hand trembled, and a cold light shot towards Li Yan like thunder. He took off the bow, turned around, and shot the arrow, all in one go. All the actions were completed in less than two breaths.
At this distance of a hundred feet, even for the army's top archery experts, the arrow would lose its power when it reaches halfway.
However, with the infusion of high internal energy from a person in the Transformation Realm, a sharp sound of breaking through the air was heard, and in just the blink of an eye, it had crossed a distance of dozens of feet, and its power had not diminished at all.
"You thief, how dare you..." Several voices of shock and anger suddenly filled the air, and more than a dozen figures rushed towards Li Yan. Cui Feng was also filled with murderous intent. Without thinking, he also flew into the air, trying to catch the arrow.
But just as they were about to move, the arrow, which was as powerful as thunder, had already arrived less than three feet in front of Li Yan. Then a strange laugh was heard, "Get out of the way!"
Li Yan's body was slightly sideways, and he rushed out like a meteor chasing the moon, while at the same time he slapped down diagonally. In fact, he had already noticed it when Dong Min turned around and drew his bow.
In response to this, he just snorted coldly in his heart, and waited until the arrow was several feet in front of him before he moved forward instead of retreating.
The soldiers here could not withstand a full-strength attack from a master in the realm of transformation. Even Cui Feng would be injured after trying to take the arrow.
Li Yan took a step forward and his body was already in front of the arrow. He avoided the tip of the arrow and slapped the arrow shaft with one palm. Then Li Yan let out a "Huh".
Just as he slapped the arrow with his palm, he felt a strange force coming from the arrow shaft. This force came back from the tip of the arrow and actually blocked half of his palm force while quickly changing the direction of the arrow.
At the same time, to outsiders, the sharp arrow that was originally flying forward, paused under Li Yan's slanting palm, and then drew a small arc and quickly shot towards Li Yan's back. This sudden change immediately caused a cry of surprise from those around him. Li Yan was also startled, but he was a contemporary peerless master. Whether it was fighting with martial arts masters or fighting on the battlefield, he had already experienced countless life and death. Although he was surprised by this, he was not panicked at all, and shouted "Come on!"
His body was already bent with his head down in a critical moment, and the sharp arrow whizzed through his head again. However, before the arrow flew out less than a foot, it was grabbed by a big hand and stopped in the air.
The woman who called herself Dong Lingmin in the distance did not immediately lead her men to escape after shooting the arrow, nor did she shoot another arrow. She just watched Li Yan capture her arrow.
"Shoot them from behind, Marshal, kill them..."
"I've let you go, but you attacked my Marshal. You all deserve to die..."
"Kill them..."
For a moment, the imperial soldiers were extremely furious and glared at the distance, but until a military order came down, they still maintained their original formation.
Li Yan played with the arrow feathers in his hand, turning a deaf ear to the sounds around him. After looking at it repeatedly for a while, he slowly raised one arm. In an instant, the battlefield on the west side returned to calm again. Then he squinted his eyes and looked at the enemies of the Meng State a hundred feet away.
The soldiers of the Meng State were also facing a powerful enemy at this moment. They didn't know what the general's intention was, but perhaps he wanted to kill the other side's marshal. At this time, they could only fight to the death.
But he did not have any resentment towards his own general in his heart. At the same time, he was even more afraid of Li Yan's strength. The general's archery skills and bravery were the best among the three armies. No one in the Meng army could take her arrow.
Especially in a sudden sneak attack, the most difficult thing to deal with is the strange force of the arrow. Once it is caught, you often don't know where it will come from next.
"Dong Ling... Min? So you are from the royal family of Meng Kingdom, but I wonder if you are a princess or a county lady?" Li Yan looked at the silver-armored woman who had previously called herself "Dong Min".
The Meng surname, which was used to found the Meng State, had been overthrown for more than three hundred years, and the surname "Dongling" had become the exclusive surname of the royal family of the Meng State, but they had never changed the name of the country.
Li Yan didn't know why the other party suddenly gave his real name again. He frowned and continued.
"The Dark Tide Triple Wave is the inner strength technique of the Yuanqing Sect. It is said that no one has been able to master it for at least 150 years. Seeing it today really broadened my horizons. It's a pity that you have only mastered one layer of Dark Strength. Otherwise, this arrow could have two more changes under the influence of external forces."
"General Li is indeed the best in the world. He even knows the internal skills such as Dark Tide and Three Waves which have been lost for many years and almost no one knows about. I admire you!"
Dong Lingmin bit her lower lip and said palely. The arrow just now had consumed most of her newly recovered internal energy, and now she only felt empty.
Although she had mastered the Dark Tide Triple Wave, even at her peak, she could only shoot three arrows at most, and she needed to calm her breath and mind between the three arrows.
Although the breathing time is very short, but in the eyes of masters, it is not three consecutive arrows at all, nor is it as brilliant as the Dark Tide Triple Wave which can hide the three levels of dark power in one arrow.
Dong Lingmin was also surprised, because although very few people still knew that Dark Tide Three Waves was the Yuanqing School's core internal martial arts technique, Li Yan revealed it in one sentence just by taking an arrow.
You know, even if the world's top archery masters have not practiced the Dark Tide Triple Wave internal energy, they can still achieve the effect of a boomerang arrow by relying on their immersion in bows and arrows, but they can never achieve the effect of the Dark Tide Triple Wave's triple attack.
"Okay, go now!" After Li Yan knew that the other party was a member of the royal family of Meng State, although he suddenly had murderous thoughts in his heart, but when he looked at that pretty face, he suddenly waved his hand with boredom.
In fact, Li Yan also felt that the other party should have intended to compare martial arts just now, otherwise the arrow would not have hit his back but the back of his head under the hidden force.
"Maybe it's because I let her go once just now, so she left some room for me to attack her." Li Yan thought to himself.
What he didn't know was that after Dong Lingmin shot the first arrow, she didn't shoot the second arrow. It was because she hadn't recovered her physical strength. But there was another reason. When Dong Lingmin shot the first arrow, she just felt that her best skill had not been used yet, and she was still unwilling to accept the previous defeat. But when she loosened her fingers, she felt regretful in her heart, so she subconsciously adjusted her internal strength.
But she still couldn't retract the arrow, so she stood there, her mind a little confused. She didn't know why she didn't want to shoot the arrow.
She thought that after Li Yan spoke, he would attack her like a demon, but there was only a gleam of light in his eyes, and then he waved his hand again to let her and her group leave.
Dong Lingmin said nothing more, but saluted and was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly stopped, as if hesitating about something. Seeing that the general was not leaving, a group of Meng soldiers under his command thought, "Are we really going to fight to the death today and be buried here?"